I started this little pizza joint on a whim that began as a conversation on a dog walk with my wife and our little French Bulldog, Sunny. Fast forward seven years and here we are – cooking up pizza and I’m living my dream. Sunny’s is living proof that you don’t have to be a chef to start a restaurant and that you don’t have to be from somewhere else to come up with a new concept and that you don’t have to be wealthy (or from a wealthy family) to start a new business and that you don’t have to be connected with all the cool, cliquey people to develop a following.

When you decide to spend your hard-earned money at our pizzeria, you legitimize the dream for regular folks like us who genuinely care about the neighborhood we serve and our beautiful city, one that I’ve called home for my entire life. Growing up, my father was a welder and my mother was a grocery store clerk. I grew up jealous of those who had more interesting lives and it made me an incredibly ambitious person – one that personally cooks pizzas every weekday, one that tries hard to make a difference in our community and give back to those who are in need and one that consistently asks ‘why not me and why not us?’.

We pride ourselves on kindness, compassion, great service and a relaxed atmosphere. We strive to pay our employees fairly and treat everyone like adults. We just want to have fun, man, and we hope that you can feel good in knowing that money spent at Sunny’s stays in the Sioux Falls community and supports local people – your neighbors. For everyone that supports our pizzeria, I just wanted to say, from the bottom of my heart: thank you. We appreciate you more than you know!

Cheers.

-Jon